No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. – Llewelyn Powys, quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. – Author Unknown

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion